Dictionary Entry
despite
despite is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and preposition in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
- 2noun
An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.
- 3noun
To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
- 4preposition
In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.
- 5noun
contemptuous disregard
"she wanted neither favor nor despite"
- 6noun
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
"he was held in contempt"
"the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
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